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High times with high minds
Inside long-ago Alpine “reading parties” with Oxford University’s most exclusive secret society
Canada’s voyage down the slippery slope
Euthanasia is spiralling out of control
The demons of WitchTok
Are Gen-Zs summoning evil spirits online?
Close and far
A captivating exhibition about the homelessness of mental illness
On kids and imagination
We don’t have to teach them how to play
It’s time to build prisons
Inadequate facilities hurt everyone
A sharp and shrewd look at Lawrence
A dialectical mind, Lawrence is modern in his resistance to labels
Living the high life
Empathising with pill-popping Pandora
Against Brown-nosers
We should hear less from former PMs
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle